Authorities say Wilmer Elias Soy of Postville picked up two 13-year-old girls without permission by Soy and a parent and/or guardian wasn't notified. Soy allegedly picked the two girls up in the 100 block of East Bradford in West Union.
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Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, conducted a raid at Midwest Precast Concrete that resulted in the arrest of 32 men. The soccer coach of one of the boys who's father was arrested today told TV9 they both broke down when he called.
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A Guatemalan man who was deported three times from the U.S> before returning illegally and using false identification documents to get a job has been sentenced. On May 8 27-year-old Sebastian Batz-Mejia, a Guatemalan citizen who was illegally residing in Postville, Iowa, was sentenced to six months in prison.
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Cesar Mendez-Chavez, 26, a Guatemalan citizen illegally residing in Tama, Iowa, was given the term after pleading guilty on February 12 to three counts of unlawful use of identification documents. An investigation found that on June 9, 2016, and June 13, 2016, Mendez-Chavez used a fraudulent social security card when completing employment forms to get jobs using an alias name in Tama and Northwood.
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On May 12, 2008, 389 people were arrested in an immigration raid at Agriprocessors, the main producer of kosher meat in the United States. The raid was the largest single-site immigration raid at the time in the history of the United States.
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The Cedar Rapids Salvation Army is running out of time to reach its goal for the annual Red Kettle campaign. The Cedar Rapids Salvation Army is running out of time to reach its goal for the annual Red Kettle campaign.
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"If you make a diary you might write down that you were part of this history because I think it's a major tidal wave of joy right now," Aaron Goldsmith, friend of Rubashkin, said. "I think the wisdom of the founding fathers came out.
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In the wake of President Donald Trump's commutation of the sentence of a former Agriprocessors manager, one church leader in Postville says, "Our town collapsed completely." On Wednesday President Trump commuted the 27-year federal prison sentence of Shalom Rubashkin, the former executive of Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, now known as Agri Star.
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A group in Dubuque is ending its work to resettle refugees in Eastern Iowa. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque says local and national changes are the reason for ending the program.
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On September 25 at 1:40 p.m., the Clayton County Sheriff's Office took a 911 call of a subject trapped in a grain bin at 18081 Dove Ave, Rural Luana. Deputies along with Luana, Saint Olaf, Farmersburg and Postville Fire Departments, as well as the Postville Ambulance were called to the scene.
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